Chra: Empty Airport
Chra: Empty Airport
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Chra
Label: Editions Mego
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 5050580633360
Genre: Electronic
The title of Empty Airport, Chra's second LP and her first on Editions Mego, may be read as a reference to Brian Eno's ambient classic, though this time we find ourselves in a territory of transit that sounds like a dystopian swan song on civilizatoric debris -- a heterotopia emptied of human remains, with only ghostly echoes behind. Chra aka comfortzone foundress Christina Nemec has traced out a post-anthropocene area in which acoustic entries of field recordings are stratified in layers of deconstructed noisescapes. Partly interspersed with clunky technoid basslines, an introspective space is opened, which excavates in a discreet and subtle manner layers of abandoned wasteland. Nemec, who is a member of various projects including Shampoo Boy (together with Peter Rehberg and Christian Schachinger) and the female berserker formation SV Damenkraft, has succeeded in producing a significant LP that merges dark techno and industrial with found sounds and ambient scapes, resulting in a compositoric minimalism that ushers us into a state of existential trance. Recorded and produced by Christina Nemec in Vienna and Hornerwald, 2012-2014. Additional mixing on "Abandoned House" by Christian Fennesz. Guitar on "Soca Valley" by Christian Schachinger, recorded at Twisted, Vienna. Mastered and cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, 2015. Artwork by Susi Klocker.
Tracks:
1.1 Abandoned House 02:25
1.2 KBN 03:36
1.3 Luminiscent 02:51
1.4 Fits of Asthma 04:33
1.5 Adorable Vanity 03:56
1.6 Landmine 02:55
2.1 Empty Airport 06:20
2.2 Soca Valley 03:24
2.3 Cigarettes and Roses 03:13
2.4 The Story of 04:33
2.5 Contaminated Landscapes 04:16
